To Forget

Description

It's a daily dose for Taemin. And it's killing him.

Foreword

6.05 pm.

While in a hurry, Taemin bumps on someone's shoulder. It is really challenging to avoid people because evening is closing in and the streets bustle with workers heading home from offices. Taemin can't wait to reach home as well.
 
He apologized to the person and hurried his walk back to his apartment. A plastic bag of grocery on his left hand rustles along his moving legs. Taemin feels sorry to Minho because he knows the man at home can't handle a kitchen knife like how he handles his playstation's joystick. He will have to fix dinner as soon as he gets home because Minho will be starved and Taemin forgot to tell the man that he got extra shift today. As he climbs the stairs to his home, Taemin feels like he forgot one more thing and it's ringing for him to pick up but it's still out of reach. 
 
Now that he touched the subject of forgetting about something, Taemin remembers that he hadn't done the laundry and the stacks of comic books next to their bed hadn't been replaced on their shelf. Minho used to scold Taemin on that habit. He's not neccesarily a neat-freak or something and Taemin understands that the floor looks great without printed papers of illustrations spread on it like a cake icing. There is also the issue of Minho's sneakers on the front door. Taemin loves Minho but he had been wanting to speak with the man about getting a shoe rack so the grey door can open without scraping on them each time someone's getting in or out. That's one more thing to add to the list of things he forgot.
 
Upon reaching the third floor, Taemin's eyes caught on the sole flower pot sitting next to his front door. The plant is partly wilted and the only flower stuck on its shoot falls down gracefully as a loud bang of iron gate from afar echoed through the corridor. It seems that even the task of watering the only crop he planted is forgotten. Noted, Taemin thought. 
 
As Taemin shoves his cold hand into the pocket of his worn-out jacket to grab his house keys, he noticed that Minho's sneakers are gone. Puzzled and blank for a few moments, Taemin draw nearer to make sure he hasn't mistaken someone else's house as theirs. To his surprise, the small name plate for tenants of the house plastered on the door displayed only 'Lee' and the box for 'Choi' is left empty. Taemin immediately unlocks the door and flung it open.
 
The room was dark and little could be made out of the evening glow from the windows. The unwashed shirts and shorts of Minho are not sprawling across the floor as it used to be and the playstation wire that interwoven to the plugs are gone. Only one mug is left on the counter next to the sink, ready to be rinsed, when it had always been two of them, one is blue and another is yellow. The right side of the bed where Taemin slept last night is still unmade but next to it seems untouched and empty. 
 
There's a medium-sized box next to the short TV cupboard and inside are Minho's things like his favourite soccer ball, the tattered bag he had for his twentieth birthday four years ago, letters with broken seals addressed to him, the digital watch that has a scar on its screen from a rough play of sports long time ago and also, half the sneakers that were missing on the front door. A two weeks old newspaper sprawled on the dinner table is left open on a page that written a news about an accident near the neighbourhood. And it hit him hard once again. 
 
Taemin bit his lower lip in frustration towards his own stupidity. The grocery plastic falls free from his hand. Tears glide down his cheeks. This is the one thing that he had forgotten yet again. He shouldn't forget something so important. But he just couldn't add the fact to his list. Taemin stood alone on the front door of his dark home, waiting for a welcome from someone that will never come. What greeted him today, like yesterday, was just a cold splash of reality. Minho is gone now. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A/N: Hope you liked it. :)

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chibieru #1
AHHHHHH!!! OMGHED WHY

MY HEART ;A;
SHINee_fangirl_4ever
#2
so heartbreaking... T_T
saae #3
OMGGG why so sad??? T________T Poor Tae has to start getting used of living without Minho...
Anyway, hi to you! Haha...
I always check AFF everyday so i found this here first (i don't even know if you've crossposted this on LJ coz i haven't check there :P)
I've been missing your stories~ hehe...
maxjibong
#4
Is someone's shoulder that Tae bumps belong to Minho? It's already finished?